Tag Archives: Judge Robert P. Frank

At appellant’s prosecution for contempt of court for allegedly claiming inability to appear in court due to illness one day before she attended a Valentine Day party at her child’s school, she failed to raise a conflict-of-interest challenge to the ...

A divorce court did not err in ordering wife to transfer her separately titled limited partnership interest to satisfy a monetary award to husband, the Court of Appeals holds. In the parties’ property settlement agreement, they agreed wife’s separately titled ...

Under the relevant statutes and Virginia precedent, a defendant who failed to timely return a rental car cannot be convicted of failure to return leased property in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-118, as that statute explicitly exempts vehicles from ...

Although defendant was acquitted of murder and use of a firearm charges in connection with his fatal shooting of another man outside a barber shop, that acquittal did not collaterally estop his simultaneous conviction of possession of a gun as ...

An officer who stopped a car after hearing shots fired and seconds later seeing a speeding car run a stop sign, could testify in support of the commonwealth’s claim that a weapon found in the car with a loaded magazine ...

Police executing a search warrant at the home of a defendant suspected of multiple thefts from vehicles in the city fire department parking lot could seize a laptop computer found in defendant’s apartment with a specific item the warrant named, ...

A defendant who sold drugs multiple times to an undercover officer could not rely on an entrapment defense, and the Court of Appeals affirms his cocaine distribution convictions. In this case, there was no entrapment. Defendant had a reputation for ...

Although defendant claimed he was just being persistent in trying to meet a woman he approached at a grocery store check-out line and then tried to follow home, the Court of Appeals affirms his conviction of attempted abduction and assault ...

Although three jurors indicated some degree of personal belief that one should not drive after drinking any alcoholic beverage, the trial court properly conducted voir dire to distinguish for the jurors the difference between what Virginia law allows and what ...

Despite overwhelming evidence that defendant committed two separate sexual assaults in 2008 and 2010, the trial court erred in trying the two cases together, as their dissimilarities were stronger than their similarities, and the Court of Appeals reverses defendant’s convictions ...